Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Goats devastate the landscape

Please, please do not let the weed-eating goats in Hailey continue above Myrtle along the bike path! Please.

Yes, it's a clever idea, and none of us want to breathe pesticides, and they take the cheatgrass and weeds. And everything else in their path. They're goats. That's what they do. To ride and walk through the grasses—the tall Great Basin wild rye that turns golden in the late summer, the sage and lavender-blooming lupine—our bike path is so beautiful.

Where the goats have been there are dry stalks and dirt. Nothing. Like the high meadows when the sheep have been through. Please rethink this. Can't we learn to live with some weeds and leave the beauty of the rest?

Mary Ann Wuebker

Hailey



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